Today would have been my grandfather's 89th birthday. Richard Joseph Zalewski was born on December 9th, 1921 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The 2nd child of Joseph & Emily (Troka) Zalewski.
He passed away in April 18th, 1999 when I was freshman in college. His death, and a few other moments in … [Read more...]

The weekly history from our family trees for this week. I plan on getting back to this since I've been so busy lately. As always you can browse the history by date on the Dates & Anniversaries page.
November 28th
1841 - Died - Constant Joseph LAURENT - Constant is Brian's … [Read more...]

By the time the VAN PRICE surname ended in my ancestry, it had already been changed at least once. My great-grandmother, Mildred Vida (DEBROUX) VAN PRICE, was the last to have the surname before she married my great-grandfather. Her father, as he is listed on later documents and his headstone, was … [Read more...]

For Wayback Wednesday, I'm going to give you more than just the one photo shown here. I'm going to give you a whole collection of 119 photos. I recently uploaded my grandfather's Navy photo collection to Flickr. I was hoping that maybe somebody from the photos, or their families, will find them. It … [Read more...]

It's been 5 days since Aerissa was born. Today is the day that she was scheduled to be born. We were supposed to be going in last night to start the process. It's still 6 days from her original due date, which was November 10th. Since she's very healthy, I'm glad she came early. The other day I … [Read more...]

She's here. Just a few days earlier than expected, but she picked an awesome birthday. That's her with me and my "new dad" beard.
Aerissa Jean Zalewski
Born on 10/31/2010 at 2:31pm - 6lbs 10oz … [Read more...]

A photo from 1921 that includes my 3rd-great grandmother, Nepomuncena (SYLDATK) SZULTA, in the middle. This is a photo of her with a bunch of her grandchildren. Since it seems to be sometime in Summer or Spring 1921, my grandfather would not have been born yet. Though, the little girl in her lap on … [Read more...]

Randy Seaver of GeneaMusings has posted this week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. The prompt for this week is as follows:
1) Read Brenda Joyce Jerome’s post Who or What Do You Blame? on the Western Kentucky Genealogy blog. She asks these questions:
* Can you identify person or event that started … [Read more...]

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I started genealogy research about mid-1999. My grandfather had passed away in April of that year. Since then I’ve done a lot of research not only for myself, but for friends and other relatives. In 2006, I married the love of my life, Darcy, and welcomed the birth of our daughter, Aerissa Jean, in 2010 and our son, Xander Lee, in 2012. I can’t wait to tell them stories about all of their ancestors. Read More…